Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

“I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked …”

“The venn diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't want to …”

“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think…”

“He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her”